In a series of four videos, I unpack the seismic shift taking place in American education. Drawing from the story of Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand, where a massive earthquake so altered the landscape that the old maps were no longer reliable, I use this fitting image to explain what is happening right now in education.
In the first video, I talked about why this matters. The educational landscape has changed. Public trust has eroded. Families are leaving conventional systems. Parent-choice scholarships, homeschooling, hybrid models, classical schools, and online courses are completely reshaping the terrain.
But underneath all of that is something deeper. Parents are realizing that education is the formation of a human being, not the preparation of their child for a fluctuating job market. It is the passing down of wisdom and knowledge from one generation to the next. It is where every culture tells the truth about what it believes and what it loves.
In the second video, I talked about the compass questions. What is education for? What kind of person is this education forming? What environment is best for my child? What is the curriculum? Who is teaching and forming my child? Does this education cultivate virtue and wisdom? Does it teach my child to master words rather than be mastered by them?
In the third video, I talked about how to give your child a humane education in a real family with real limits. Begin with the end in mind. Choose an environment appropriate to your season. Build an ordered course of study. Make room for the liberal arts. Find teachers and mentors who love the right things. Build a sustainable plan.
In the fourth video, I invite you to take the right step before the door closes.
Kepler Education offers live, online courses in the classical Christian tradition for families who want serious education without surrendering their agency, without giving up the flexibility and responsibility of the home.
Our courses are taught by qualified instructors who care about formation, wisdom, language, literature, history, theology, philosophy, science, mathematics, and the liberal arts. They care about helping students become the kinds of young men and women who can read carefully, think clearly, write persuasively, speak truthfully, and live faithfully.
Kepler exists to help families give their children a humane education—an education ordered toward truth, goodness, beauty, wisdom, and virtue. And because Kepler is live and online, families can build a course schedule that fits their circumstances.
Some families take one course. Some take a handful of courses. Some build a full academic schedule using our diploma track. Some use our dual credit program to earn college credit in high school. Some need writing support. Some need humanities. Some need Latin, logic, rhetoric, mathematics, science, theology, or electives. Some need help supplementing a homeschool program. Some need a serious academic community for a student who is hungry for more.
Whatever your situation, this is the time to look carefully.
At Kepler, Student Life is purposeful. It’s designed to give high school students more than a list of classes to take from their dining room table. Student Life gives Kepler students a place to build lasting friendships, practice humane leadership, cultivate particular life skills, and enjoy wholesome engagement with other students who share a love for learning and a desire to grow as men and women of God.
Through Kepler Student Life, enrolled students can participate in a variety of clubs, professional development opportunities like Student Council, and various other student-led projects that are guided by a teacher/mentor. Students can also organize events, contribute to the annual yearbook, and publish creative work in our semiannual student magazine, The Kepler Eccentric. At Kepler, students are being invited into a living academic community rather than simply logging into class or hanging out online.
And yes, this matters. Young people need friendship, conversation, play, and responsibility. They need places where they can test ideas, practice charity, pursue excellence, and learn how to belong without being absorbed into the crowd. Our position is that most of that should happen through an embodied experience, not “outsourced” to some nebulous place online.
Yet, Kepler’s “Quad” supplements that embodied experience and gives students a moderated online space to interact around shared interests with their peers. From speech and debate to music, art, photography, chess, philosophy, and even games, our aim is not more digital distraction, but supervised and ordered community: leisure and recreational activities under the governance of wisdom, mentorship, and Christian purpose.
Kepler partners with Faulkner University to offer college credit for qualifying high school students (dual credit program). These courses are fully accredited by The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) through Kepler’s MOU with Faulkner University. This means college credits are transferable to state or private colleges in the U.S.
Better yet, Kepler diploma track students who are college bound, can now save 50% OFF on tuition at Faulkner University! There’s more! Kepler students can also pass on savings to friends and family members!
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